By Heather Dune Macadam
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

The acclaimed internationally best-selling author of Rena's Promise reveals the poignant stories of the 999 women on the first official transport to Auschwitz, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses and relatives of those first deportees.

By Jeanine Cummins
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk, Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.

By Emily Henry
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

An acclaimed but blocked literary master and a bestselling novelist who has stopped believing in true love agree to a summer–long writing project that challenges them to write well in each others’ styles.

By Megha Majumdar
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry–eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack.

By John Cleese
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The Monty Python comic master shares lighthearted advice on how anyone can learn the skill of creativity, drawing on whimsical personal experience to explain how to get into the right frame of mind, develop worthwhile ideas and overcome blocks.

By Connie Schultz
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

A first novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Life Happens explores the impact of forfeited dreams, long–kept secrets and evolving gender roles on a small family throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

By Ann Napolitano
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian, Amy B., Children's Librarian

12–year–old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.

By Gene Luen Yang

An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves.

By Ronald H. Balson
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

The National Jewish Book Award-winning author of The Girl From Berlin explores the human cost of war and the consequences of survival in the story of a Polish business owner who seeks justice for a wartime betrayal.

By Jennifer Steil
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

The daughter of respected Jewish music artists finds her culturally rich life in 1938 Vienna shattered by the Nazi invasion and a devastating secret that threatens her efforts to start over in a Bolivian Andes refugee community.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Entering a flatshare arrangement with a man on an opposite work shift, a heartbroken woman begins exchanging notes with the roommate she has never met and becomes his best friend, and possibly soulmate, through their correspondence.

By Jeff Lindsay
Series Riley Wolfe Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Thief and disguise artist Riley Wolfe continues his Robin Hood-inspired crusade against the wealthy elite by orchestrating the theft of a highly prized Fabergé egg.

By Abi Daré
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Adunni, a 14–year– old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.

By Kimberly McCreight

Begged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close–knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.

By Aimee Molloy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Eavesdropping on the therapy sessions her husband conducts for clients in a downstairs office, a lonely young bride finds her life and marriage turned upside down when her husband goes missing after welcoming a sophisticated new patient.

By Abby Jimenez
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Adopting a rescue puppy to help her get her life back on track two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan clashes with the mischievous pup’s original owner, Jason, a rising musician who challenges Sloan to make difficult choices.

By Robert Kolker
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

By Alice Feeney
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Sacrificing everything for her hard–won BBC presenter career, Anna teams up with DCI Jack Harper to investigate a childhood friend’s murder in her sleepy hometown village.

By Caitlin Moran

Piecing together common–sense observations with scenes from her own life, the author sheds new light on feminism, discussing the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues for both women and society itself.

By Jeff Lindsay
Series Riley Wolfe Series

Targeting a crown jewel collection that is protected by airtight security, a Robin Hood-type master thief finds his efforts complicated by an equally skilled nemesis cop and an expert forger with dubious loyalties.

By Rumaan Alam
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian, Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut–off property is actually safe.

By Belinda Smith-Sullivan

Lend a little Southern hospitality to your brunch menu with approximately 85 flavor–packed recipes for breakfast and brunch, including front porch–worthy libations, from Chef Belinda Smith–Sullivan.

By Liz Moore
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood.

By Kirsty Manning
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

An American jewelry historian discovers her unexpected ties to a fortune in jewels discovered under the floor of a London tenement house where an impoverished Irish immigrant once attempted to change her family's fortune.

By Mariah Carey
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist Mariah Carey finally tells the unfiltered story of her life.

By Matt Haig
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian

Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

By Caitlin Moran
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

The author of How to Be a Woman presents a humorous confessional memoir that reflects on the lighter side of the patriarchy while exploring topics ranging from middle age, parenting, and marriage to feminism and existential crises.

By Leah Franqui

An independent New York foodie accompanies her husband to his home in Mumbai, where her ex–pat sense of adventure is tested by the unexpected arrival of her headstrong mother–in–law.

By Margarita Montimore
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director

A young woman destined to wake up on her birthday to a random year in her life struggles through an out-of-order existence to reconcile her inner youth with the realities of shifting external identities, appearances and period norms.

By David Hopen
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Reinventing himself upon moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, a student at an Orthodox Jewish academy is welcomed into a circle of popular students whose faith is unconventionally tested by their charismatic rabbi.

By Barack Obama
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

A deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.

By P. Djèlí Clark

A dark–fantasy, historical novella from the award–winning author of The Black God’s Drums follows a foul–mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter as they fight a supernatural Ku Klux Klan in Macon, Georgia in the early 20th century.

By Eliese Colette Goldbach
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Taking readers deep inside the mill and her Middle American upbringing, a steelworker at ArcelorMittal Steel in Cleveland, Ohio, shares how she found humanity and hope in the most unlikely and hellish of places.

By Kirsty Manning
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

Returning to Australia to attend her grandfather's deathbed, a heartbroken woman learns the remarkable story of her grandmother, a Jewish refugee who forged a fateful friendship with a local in World War II Shanghai.

By Beth O'Leary
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Ready for an adventure in the months after her husband of 60 years departs, a woman from a picture–postcard Yorkshire village offers to swap places with her burned–out adult granddaughter to pursue romance in bustling London.

By Kate Reed Petty
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Haunted by the roles they played in covering up the sexual assault and attempted suicide of a student 15 years earlier, reclusive ghostwriter Alice and her former schoolmate, Nick, explore memories from different viewpoints that eventually reveal what really happened.

By Brit Bennett
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed–race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

By Stephanie Scott

In modern–day Tokyo a young woman searches for the truth about her mother’s life—and her murder.

By Alyssa Cole
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Finding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.

By Ada Calhoun

The award–winning author of Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give presents a generation–defining exploration of the impossible standards being imposed on middle–aged Generation X women and what the author recommends to avoid burnout.